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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939 Price: 10 Cts.
AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
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NUFFIELD ATTACK ON AIR SPEED RECORD
500 M.P.H. MYSTERY
ESCAPE BIDS
CONTINUE AT
PLANE
BID GLOUCESTER
London, To-day.
MA TAU CHUNG Further details have begun to leak out concerning
Lord Nuffield's plans for building a plane which will win back the world air speed record for Great Britain.
A double attempt to escape from the soldiers' internment camp The machine will cost at least £20,000 to build, and
at Mattauchung made yesterday was partially successful, one of the men getting clear away, the second being recaptured.
A plank of wood was laid across the barbed-wire surround- ing the camp and the two men started to crawl over it to free- dom.
Just as the half-way across,
the alarm, and
•
second man was
he
a sentry gave was caught.
The first to cross is still at large.
RESIDENT'S HEAVY LOSS
A serious loss by theft in the street has been reported to the police by Mrs. J. Taylor, residing at the Gloucester Hotel
A handbag, containing a gold cigarette case, a gold powder
value of $870, was stolen from her while shopping in Des Voeux Road Central yesterday.
the brains behind its design is Mr. A. E. Hagg, compact and money, to the total the man who designed the famous Australia- and-back De Havilland "Comet."
Pilot for the attempt has not yet been chosen, but he will have to fly blind, and he will be expected to streak across the sky at more than eight miles a minute.
JAPANESE
Cheng Shui-lang, of the 153rd HOLDING LARGE
Division, was charged at Kowloon before Mr. Himsworth this morn- ing in connection with the inci- dent and sentenced to one month's imprisonment. He was told he would have to return to the camp when he had completed his sentence.
BRITAIN'S AIR MISSION TO AUSTRALIA
London, To-day.
The British air mission which will sail shortly for Australia will, it is announced, also visit
New Zealand at the invitation of the Government of the latter dominion.
It will, be the task of the
CUSTOMS FUNDS
Chungking, To-day.
It is estimated that the Customs revenue detained by the Japanese since the beginning of the Sino- Japanese hostilities in July, 1937 amounts to over $150,000,000 (Chinese currency).
The major portion of the revenue, detained and deposited by the Ja- panese in th eYokoham a Specie Bank, is in Chinese currency. The remaining portion is in bogus and Japanese currency.
In general, the major part of the Customs revenue collected in
currency
Shanghai is in Chinese while that in Tientsin is bogus cur- rency.-Central News.
mission to investigate the possi- S'HAI CONSULAR
bilities of increasing aircraft pro- duction in the British Empire.
COURT
Chungking, To-day
Herbert
Sir Kingsley Wood issued & statement yesterday stressing the importance of the despatch of the mission to Australia and New Zea- land, which afforded new proof of the unity of the Empire and of the close co-operation between its con- ponents in the interest of Imperial eral in Shanghai, have been defence. -Trans-Ocean..
FLIGHT ACROSS FRONTIER
Paris, To-day.
Mr. C. E. Gauss, Sir Phillips, and Mr. Miura, American British and Japanese Consuls-Gen- jp:
pointed judges in the Consular Court for 1939, according to a re- port from Shanghai-Central News.
in a completely exhausted condition. Numerous wealthy Catalans have arrived by car in France and- are Several Republican Spanish solat present staying near Perpignan, diers crossed the frontier yesterday |--Trans-Ocean.
It is learned that the design is revolutionary.
The plane will be almost wing- less and will be little more than
FRENCH CABINET AGREES ON SPANISH POLICY
Paris, To-day.
It is stated that a complete
within the
a vast aero-engine. In effect, a agreement prevails low-winged monoplane, it will be French Cabinet regarding France's fitted with a single 2,000-h.p. en- attitude towards the Spanish pro- gine, the highest-powered aero-blem. engine ever designed in a single unit.
Plans are being completed in the London office of Mr. Hagg, and actually construction will not start until March.
The attempt on the record is expected to be made in late June or in July.
The expose of the Foreign Minis- ter is understood to have dealt ex-
tensively with his conversations with the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, on the Anglo-Italian negotiations in Rome.
Authoritative French circles stress once more that Lord Halifax and M. Bonnet were in full agreement The present record of 440.67 especially as regards the Mediter- miles an hour is held by Italy. ranean problem.-Trans-Ocean.
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